Tom Wright

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Does this gif drive you crazy? Turns out our brains prefer left to right motion, which explains why old side-scrolling games were almost always set up that way. Looking at it feels wrong because we have a “fundamental bias for visual motion”. Even italics lean toward the right, conveying motion in that direction.

A study by Peter Walker published in the journal Perception confirms that we prefer left to right motion, but there is no explanation as to why. From the press release:

“What artistic conventions are used to convey the motion of animate and inanimate items in still images, such as drawings and photographs? One graphic convention involves depicting items leaning forward into their movement, with greater leaning conveying greater speed. Another convention, revealed in the present study, involves depicting items moving from left to right.”

However, this bias does not apply to people or objects which are stationary.

“Whereas a rightward bias is found for photographs of animate and inanimate items in motion (more so the faster is the motion being conveyed), either no bias or a leftward bias is found for the same items in static pose. This could indicate a fundamental left-to-right bias for visual motion.”

So left to right side-scrolling games are backed up by science, but we’ll have to wait for another study to learn why that’s the direction we all prefer.

(via Gizmodo)

Don’t touch my phone. PS if anyone remembers the super old comic I made about not letting people scroll through my pictures you get an A+!! 

After Firefly Clue and Firefly Yahtzee, here comes the Firefly edition of Monopoly! As you can see in the picture above, the traditional tokens are replaced by ships, the properties are planets, and the community chest and chance cards are now named “Gorram” and “Shiny!”

The big damn heroes of Firefly are featured in this awesome version of Monopoly! The Firefly Monopoly board game features some of your favorite characters and locations from the hit show! Where will the Serenity take you next? Roll the dice and find out!

[Pre Order: Firefly Monopoly – Release Date: April 2015]

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I’ve recently starting using a coffee nap when I really need a quick and effective nap. It’s just a 20 minute nap where you drink a coffee right before it so that right when you wake up, the caffeine is kicking in and you feel pretty awesome.

–TWITCH–

Follow me on Twitch. I’m gonna start randomly streaming my random video game playing, so why not get in on that. It’s always pretty great hanging out with you guys out there =)

I locked myself out of the build once when I was walking my dog. He got a very very very long walk that day.

–OH WOW WHOA–

I’m gonna be in Seattle for ECCC in a little over two weeks!

[Source: Geek Niche Comics]

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I’m always impressed when Louise sends me back my cover art, but this time she’s outdone herself.

The Dino Squad series is coming out soon, so go mark it as to-read on Goodreads. In one beta-reader’s words, “So much action.”

This is a guest comic I did for one of my favorite webcomics, Lunarbaboon

A totally impossible situation.

[Source: Port Sherry Comics | Like Port Sherry Comics on Facebook]

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Derrick Stomp’s son is one super talented kid: the boy can solve a Rubik’s Cube while spinning on the top of his head, breakdancing style.

[BboyLilJusty]

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